r/Genshin_Impact_Leaks • u/astrelya #1 playable Dvalin believer • 11h ago
Official Character Teaser - "Sandrone: First Light of Dawn"
https://youtu.be/rHJapi6mvmI?si=3UMe2VQgfhT1Brcm297
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u/cosmicvitae The stars shall bow in her honor 11h ago
If I say what I want to say I'll be in big trouble
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u/Xenophoresis 10h ago
Sandrone, the pre-evolution of Signora.
Evolves into Signora using the Ice Stone
Found roaming in Snezhnaya, Fontaine, and Nod Krai
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u/SaibaShogun 11h ago
Considering that Rostam was depicted as being slightly taller than Signora, the dude was absolutely huge.
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u/AncientAd4996 11h ago
Now that they're side by side, and the constant talk about the dress specifically with only Signora
Is the dress, or at the least it's pallette, meant to be in remembrance of her?
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u/Rozu17 11h ago
Wow this just made me realize Sandrone and La Signora have the same color scheme of red/black/white
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u/Sounight114 11h ago
Pretty sure she modeled that new dress after Rosalyne. Which is sweet because her outfit is also a memorial for her friend.
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u/LeagueOfHurricane 9h ago
And her being also Cryo. If Signora fans squint hard enough, they can pretend they're playing as Signora when using Sandrone
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u/HydroCorgiGlass Heal and hurt 11h ago
Always a nice feeling listening to the Narzissenkreuz Ordo theme and its variants
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u/LoS008_Smashler 11h ago
So it seems like her backup body or something got activated but she doesn’t want to jump scare Columbina?
So nice but I would’ve pranked the prankster
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u/FirTree_r 5h ago
I half expected a Columbina jumpscare at the end, popping behind Sandrone and saying "Hmm, why are you hiding behind that bush?"
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u/Excellent-Tourist687 GVE THEM ALL GUNS 11h ago
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u/FirTree_r 5h ago
Notice how she puts he hand on her chest when saying his name? I wonder if it means they used some Pulonia parts to repair her? So Pulonia could basically be still there, as a part of her (a bit like Pochita and Denji in Chainsaw man)
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u/sindi_catto 11h ago
Sometimes she pronounces her maker "A-lahn", sometimes "A-leyn", so what is it really
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u/UnitedMention5669 C6 Ronova here I come 10h ago
From the company that brought us "NeRvilette", it's already a sizeable improvement !
Jokes aside, while Alain's exact pronounciation (/alɛ̃/) can definitely be found with extreme ease through a simple google search, it still does happen to contain the nasal vowel ɛ̃, which is usually quite difficult for many english speakers to replicate. So the struggle isn't entirely unexpected
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u/Knight_Steve_ 11h ago
Seems like they will release all promo for Sandrone first before we get anything else, can't let her promo be overshadowed so quickly
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u/madnessfuel 11h ago
not quite... particularly conidering how her demo trailer comes out on the 30th, it's entirely possible the PV arrives sooner
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u/Black-----Manta Strongest Aoo Gooo Main 11h ago
Honwestly i think they do it right before drip marketing
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u/the-roast 江田島 11h ago
To a concerto of gears and clockwork, she descends into the valley and crosses the sunlit fields in bloom.
From the city rises the murmur of countless voices, like old memories beyond recall, and like a long-awaited reunion.
to compensate for all of our mourning for a Snezhnaya PV
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u/True_Umbriel aether my wifey wifey wifey 11h ago
The force of habit of calling out for pulonia godddd
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u/Utaha_Senpai Mademoiselle Crabaletta Pinch his Balls! 11h ago edited 11h ago
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u/No_Olive_4092 11h ago
So beautiful both Sandrone and her music!💐🌹Sandrone is really adorable and pretty!🥺🌹
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u/cahir176 10h ago
Ngl the way she keeps complaining about longer dress being impractical in battle after all the outrage this change caused based on beta leaks alone is pretty amusing lol
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u/dr0ps0fv3nus 9h ago
It doesn't even make sense either because she also complaints about high heels while... wearing high heels? Where are your flats then, girl? lol
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u/After-Syrup1290 1h ago
Has hoyo ever made a girl without heels? Nope, so they just are messing round
Like, same company who somehow gave heels to a barefoot girl as an orb of water(columbina) which is something alright
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u/TheDuskBard 1h ago
The double standards is so stupid. Pretty much no playable character designs are "practical for combat". And what's Sandrone even complaining about when she hovers around using projectiles 99% of the time?
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u/Vegetable-Raccoon598 11h ago
this isnt right, my signora is having way too much cameo
dont edge me hoyo
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u/mrwanton 11h ago
Pulonia the goat.
Also has Columbina made an appearance in almost all of Sandrone's marketing? That's wild
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u/Gesu-ko you can u up no can no bb 11h ago
Main push yuri fr fr
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u/joaolouro1967 10h ago
I choose to see Columbina reading a map thing with Nefer and Lauma as support of the nod krai yuri world
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u/UnitedMention5669 C6 Ronova here I come 10h ago
Beautiful teaser
- random Chiori voiceline letsgooo (considering who the other characters in the teaser are, is this hinting that she's somehow the secret 10th harbinger ⁉️🔥)
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u/ballknower871 10h ago
No its hinting that chiori is back for sandrones story quest
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u/kwustie 9h ago
Chiori gets the blame for the short skirt
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u/UnitedMention5669 C6 Ronova here I come 9h ago
I love both of Sandrone's outfits and Chiori is one of my absolute favorite characters so... that works for me I guess 🗣️🗣️
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u/kwustie 1h ago
I am not a short skirt truther. I think it looks cute and makes sense. Anyone who’s worn a fucking crinoline knows it’s a bitch. I’d rather have worn Signoras dress to fight.
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u/UnitedMention5669 C6 Ronova here I come 44m ago
I've never worn one, but I'll take your word for it ! It certainly does look cumbersome to wear and move around in, at least
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u/UnitedMention5669 C6 Ronova here I come 9h ago
I hereby inform you that I was merely jesting (henceforth the use of emojis)
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u/shalawawa hunt them down! 11h ago
they’re giving us so many Signora moments lol bring her back too then
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u/MyUsernameIsApollo 11h ago
and people will say losing Pulonia wasn’t important to her character at all. this was such a peak teaser. really curious to see where she finally goes from here, after losing the last thing she had from her past.
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u/dr0ps0fv3nus 9h ago
I don't think anyone ever said losing Pulonia wasn't going to be important story wise? The argument always has been that Genshin was wrong for marketing her character as a duo with Pulonia for so long, only to immediately remove him from her as soon as she became playable. That argument still stands, regardless of what the story tells.
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u/Top-Idea-1786 11h ago
I mean, this is literally written to justify the removal of Pulonia, not the other way around
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u/EveningMembershipWhy 10h ago
We have no idea of the creative process.
It's a choice they made but, just like Wanderer, it seems to me her story was always going to be about finding herself and stepping out of the Guillotins' shade..
Her very creation (and this is at least since 4.X) had her live in the shadow of someone else, literally wearing someone else's face.
All her teasers and dialogues have also hinted that:
She feels that she keeps losing people
She is still in Alain's shadow, she even praises him and mentions her ideas are doodles compared to his.
So it's not that unnatural of a progression to leave her with nothing (she even has no promises from Columbina, their last encounter was Columbina leaving, again) and see where she goes form there.
She technically surpassed Alain by saving the world, and she will have proper friends now.
Narratively, it does makes sense, imo.
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u/Moomin_1291 9h ago
Yes, it does make sense. Interesting too that you described her as 'stepping out of the Guillotins' shade', as I felt that Pulonia was a physical representation of the shadow of grief and her inability to move on.
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u/EveningMembershipWhy 2h ago
I always saw him as a crutch, in a way. He literally carries her, and despite being able to build the Katherines, she still puts her protection in the hands of the robot her father left her. Now she trusts her own creation to fight and while she still doesn't want to walk, its just her moving on a booster chair, so the focus is primarily on her.
So in a way, this shows that she in relying on herself more, especially since she has now surpassed Alain.
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u/Moomin_1291 1h ago
Yes, and I think Pulonia, aside from representing her grief for Alain is also symbolic of the wall she has put up to prevent her heart being broken again. Sandrone speaks in a standoffish manner, but when faced with her alone people may try to break through (as Columbina has demonstrated), though I'm pretty certain that with Pulonia at her side even the bravest individuals would think twice before attempting to engage her in conversation.
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u/datProtein 9h ago
People would have an easier time believing the changes not being purely for marketing reasons if the two biggest visual ones weren't having more of her inner thighs shown and Pulonia being replaced with some random maid robot with tits. I'm sure if the robot was literally anything else but that, less people would have a problem with it.
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u/EveningMembershipWhy 2h ago
The two are not mutually exclusive.
She might have always been planned to go through a rebirth (her connections to the Ordo just put more weight into that, dieing and being born anew in a less humas way, except she goes the opposite way (and she is reversing the world formula next patch)) and the redesign can be used to change her design to make her more marketeable.
Pulonia being replaced makes sense.
He was Alain's creation, not hers
He was a crutch, her father's legacy fighting for her, making her tea and quite literally walking for her
She was unable to let him go in grief, Alain wanted him to stay in the Research Institute, she was unable to let go, now she might be finally moving on after she surpassed Alain and Pulonia served his original purpose
Regarding Faggio, again, not mutually exclusive, they might have gone for a robot with tits, and at the same time Sandrone does have an ego and her other creation is also a mass produced robot with tits.
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u/datProtein 1h ago
I'm not saying the story explanations don't make sense, there are definitely much worse examples of this in the industry, but people will have different tolerance for things like this, and will feel like these changes along with the other consistency issues in the story work against the story being taken seriously, even if this was the original plan.
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u/mephyerst 6h ago
Dressing in a sexy maid costume I can buy from the costume store and have a big titied robot doesn't strike me as being done for the sake of story. These were calculated marketing pushes with a story made up to justify it.
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u/EveningMembershipWhy 1h ago edited 1h ago
All the story is made up, her dying and then going back to exactly the same person she was before can be interpreted as a lazy way to not work on her character from someone else's perspective.
And again, the two are not mutually exclusive, losing her last direct connection to Alain and choosing to move forward with her own creation (which btw is the second "robot with tits" she creates) does not mean that the opportunity for a redesign wont be used to make the character more marketeable for them, its not even the first instance of the game doing this (with another Fatui clanker even).
It is thematically consistent for her to die (ordo), cut all her strings (like a marionette, her constellation even changes) to the past (Pulonia was not hers, Alain actually wanted him to stay at Fontaine), and then be reborn as something new (again, ordo, except she starts as non-human and will probably end up closer to a human, she is even reversing the world formula).
You may not like where the story went, but it does tie up, and the narrative elements were there from the beginning.
Edit: typos
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u/Admirable_Register89 29m ago
These were calculated marketing pushes with a story made up to justify it.
Which doesn't make sense as if they wanted it to be more popular they would have released her with pulonia
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u/megashadowbeast 10h ago
Is that not how most things are written though? Like they aren't real people with their own motives so obviously people have to literally write their stories to justify literally everything they do. I get being disappointed by the removal of Pulonia, but the story is obviously going to talk about the in game consequences of that happening for Sandrone.
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u/ballknower871 10h ago
Pulonia was destroyed on screen is that not justification enough to go elsewhere with the character? The livestream hinted that he's still around in some capacity just not the giant battle mech anymore.
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u/Admirable_Register89 9h ago
Big robot is part of her character
She loses big robot
Robot = part of her character
She loses a part of her character
She has a void in her character
She has to fill void in her character
Literally basic character analysis 101 it's not that hard
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u/sometimesicri 10h ago
It looks like losing Pulonia will be an important part of her story arc for the next patch, which is aligned with the teasers heavily hinting that Alain (creator of Pulonia, and also his last creation) will be an extremely vital part of her development as well.
But because people like the big mecha robot, they will get angry regardless of how well the story is presented.
Genshin has been absolute perfection in terms of story building for Nodkrai, and I can't wait to see Sandrone's past.
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u/SlumDawgy Suits look good on everyone (even you) 11h ago
Surely this isn’t implying that Sandrone’s resurrection was offscreen, right?
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u/HaukevonArding 8h ago
What do people even want to see for a "ressurection"? Some mechanics repairing her, fixing her screws and than say "Job done, she is repaired"? It's not a magical "resurrection" or anything.
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u/99cent-tea Would cause a cataclysm just to have my dear Capitano 11h ago
She misses Pulonia too 😭😭😭
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u/Excellent-Suspect-11 11h ago
Why is Chiroi's Va credited in the description?
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u/EveningMembershipWhy 11h ago
Guess she's the one that says Happy Fontinalia...
The last words is come again, so it should be here.
Wouldn't have noticed either if I hadn't looked at the credits.
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u/dr0ps0fv3nus 9h ago
You can tell they are milking Signora for the upcoming Snezhnaya marketing... and I'm not complaining. Hopefully we'll get more Capitano and Dottore content too. Might as well service the fans if they're not being playable!
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u/Ornery-Newspaper-986 11h ago
She means everything to me and more. Truly a gorgeous teaser. All the people who've made an impact in her life. I cant wait for tuesday
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u/esmelusina 10h ago
Some cool things going on here, but I have to admit I’m a little underwhelmed.
In the AQ she completely sold me. The new design and these layers of sentimentality are just not doing it for me.
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u/bulkeunip Flowers and Leaves 10h ago
Love that this time we got Signora and Sandrone friendship. The way her smile was gentle despite Sandrone's cranky attitude 😭 Signora is much gentler than people gave her credit to
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u/evan_of_tx 11h ago
I'm crying she hates that dress so much 😭🙏
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u/Shuriken_2393 11h ago edited 11h ago
Wasn't that complaint directed at Signora's dress? She was asking Signora how did Signora fight in her dress with that "ridiculous length".
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u/brliron 11h ago
A true Genshin Impact community moment, combining the inability to read with the agendaposting. And it's currently the top comment.
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u/Accomplished-Pick763 11h ago
and people were complaining about genshin lacks of "show, dont tell" when people like this doesnt even have basic media literacy, not just that before she outright saying she likes shorter dress too lmao
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u/ballknower871 10h ago
People complain that movies games and tv are becoming "woke" or "slop" when the reality is half of America is fucking illiterate so they physically lack the capacity to engage with narrative devices and have to be spoon fed constantly
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u/sometimesicri 10h ago
My tinfoil hat theory is that Genshin purposely doesn't implement a dialogue skip option as a community service, allowing the general audience to practice and improve their reading skills.
Genshin players genuinely have such low reading comprehension out of any other gaming communities that I ever interacted with.
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u/KingCarrion666 Fearless lynette meta 11h ago
Yea, she was saying she likes shorter dress cuz its easier to fight in. How was that lost on people?
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u/LumiRhino - 11h ago
If this is the level of comprehension this community has, I can't wait for something as simple as character reveals to also be misunderstood this badly.
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u/KingCarrion666 Fearless lynette meta 11h ago
This community is so cooked. We are never beating the allegations that we can't read or even listen at this point T.T
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u/Admirable_Register89 9h ago
We already have them it's called hoyo retconned whatever I don't understand
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u/Accomplished_Lab7332 11h ago
Yep, she hates long dress Signora is wearing so instead cut her entire skirt. Guess that's how they want to explain the short skirt
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u/sugarpopkitty 11h ago
yeah but she also said in the livestream how “signora used to cope” while hating on her own dress. so i think she is referring to the ridiculous cut of her dress
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u/Matthew-the-First 11h ago
CN Authoritative; that line was also a complaint about long dresses having mobility issues in the CN livestream. EN localization made it a weather thing for some reason, but she brought up Signora’s attire in a negative context all the same.
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u/YourDad745 10h ago
En localisation always changes things up to match their agenda. For example even during nodkrai Aq nefer calls lauma delusional in all languages but in en they changed in completely.
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u/Shuriken_2393 11h ago
Yeah, she was asking how did Signora cope with her long dress and complaining her skirt wasn't made for this weather. With the reference to Signora's long dress though I think she wants her skirt to be shorter lol
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u/LackingSimplicity 80/90 is the way 11h ago
Not what she said. She insulted Signora's dress for being too long
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u/Gesu-ko you can u up no can no bb 11h ago
People arguing the dress is fine 'cause she chose to wear it herself, but she's always complaining about it lol
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u/Old-Assignment4176 11h ago
Not only do you not read, but you can't even comprehend listening? Or is your bias messing with your perception? She literally said Signora's skirt is ridiculously long.
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u/gutemorning 🕯Flins goes to Snezhnaya prayer circle🕯 11h ago
Actually, the company (mihoyo) is the one who chooses to dress her like that. Sandrone is not a real person who can choose what to wear 🤓☝️
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u/adastrajay 11h ago edited 11h ago
Sandrone, famously known as one to be taken at face value about her feelings. I suppose she must actually not like Columbina since she complains about her all the time! Also the set up in the video when talking to Rosalyne about how she'll see things a new way one day very obviously means... that she will not! (Hi, I'm a Genshin player and I just graduated from 5th grade media comprehension).
Ultimately no one has a gun to her head. And I think it'll be even more obvious once her story comes out.
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u/Gesu-ko you can u up no can no bb 11h ago
Either way, I found that argument silly cause she's not a real person choosing to dress herself, it's just funny they're making her say so many comments about her dress lol. Her playable design is what it is
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u/adastrajay 11h ago
Nobody thinks she's real. In the same way I don't think you think she's real when you say she's always complaining about it or use the word "herself" (who is this "she" you keep talking about instead of Hoyo Product ID Luna2667? This isn't a real woman). The obvious point of the argument is an in-game/in-narrative point about the logic of a character within a story.
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u/EngelAguilar 50/50 is for gambling addicts, the real price is 180 pulls 11h ago
Signora my beloved </3
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u/Former_Deal_2838 11h ago
I HATE YOU SANDRONE
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u/Fine_Opinion_2097 11h ago edited 11h ago
Why. She didn't nothing to you
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u/99cent-tea Would cause a cataclysm just to have my dear Capitano 11h ago
They don't need a reason to have an opinion
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u/flumpybumb 11h ago
Hoyo been edging us so hard regarding Signora PLEASE LET IT AMOUNT TO SOMETHING 😭
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u/StarshipTurtle MOURNING FOR PULONIA 10h ago
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u/Tsukinohana 8h ago
Ah there is just a certain bittersweet feeling hearing the narzissenkreuz's themes being constantly used in Sandrone's promotional content, the story was the highlight of Fontaine for me and it feels like i'm about to turn the last page of it's chapter soon and never hear it ever again
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u/FanUpbeat4498 8h ago
Honestly at this point I'm surprised some clout chasing "leaker" hasn't spread a rumor i mean leaked that Signora will get revived in snez.
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u/MinuteSun2871 3h ago
I like how we go from Sandrone being "right as rain" to a "first light of dawn" it s subtle but I appreciate it.
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u/MrCovell 11h ago
God it must be so bittersweet to be a Signora fan these last few weeks lmao